Tag Archives: Sun
Oracle has acquired SUN Microsystems. So whats the impact?
Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Tahir Akram.
On 20th April Oracle has eaten up another company. SUN Microsystems which was dangling around in the corridors of IBM, now at last got settled with Oracle on price of approximately $7.4 Billion in equity value or $9.50 per share in cash. Both companies have been collaborating in Java platform and have strategic relationships. Oracle [...]
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Sun to acquire MySQL
Posted on 18. Jan, 2008 by Tahir Akram.
Wow! A hot news I came across here and here today. Sun is going to acquire the open source icon MySQL. It can be a big leap for open source community as SUN is also providing a big platform independent language and now it also will have most popular open source database too.
Will this have [...]
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NetBeans 6 released
Posted on 10. Dec, 2007 by Tahir Akram.
Netbeans 6 is now available to download, with more editor enhancements and language support. As an open source IDE and rich client platform, Netbeans 6 is an excellent step forward for Sun.
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NetBeans 6.0 beta and Glassfish V2 going to be released today
Posted on 17. Sep, 2007 by Tahir Akram.
Sun has announced the release of Glassfish V2, their open-source application server (and the reference implementation of Java EE), along with the availability of the NetBeans 6 beta. Glassfish V2 adds clustering and a good bit of performance to prior releases; NetBeans 6 adds multiple language support, and a much faster editor. Read full story [...]
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New NYSE Ticker: SUNW Becomes JAVA
Posted on 28. Aug, 2007 by Tahir Akram.
World is going towards branding.Todays news is Jonatha Shwarts, CEO Sun announces that they have adopted JAVA as NASDAQ ticker instead of SUNW. ‘Java touches nearly everyone – everyone – who touches the Internet,’ blogged Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz.For me Java is going to be everywhere. It didn’t come in my socks or can’t fry [...]


